Today I took a bus trip from Englefield Green to Staines, to do some shopping and generally to scout out the shops there. I was not disappointed. I got everything I wanted for a lot less than I expected, and I found myself gawping in disbelief at this:

What is that?!? Well, it so happens that one of the rules of Billion Monkeydom is that whenever we digital simians take a snap of a sculpture, or of anything really, we try to look around for a written explanation of whatever it is and snap that also, to save us from forgetting and, if we also blog, to save a lot of tedious writing:

So now you know. I really like it. I remember when there used to be sports teams called Staines Lino. And Staines itself is not bad either. They’ve paved over the high street, which is where this is. And the cinema by the river was turned into posh riverside apartments with wine bars at the bottom, like Staines is Chelsea - which I guess it approximately is nowadays - a long, long time ago. But there’s a big PC World where you can get giant TVs, and next to that a giant Carpet Warehouse, so who needs a cinema?

And my magic London Old Git “freedom pass” meant I didn’t have to pay anything for the bus rides.